Biography

Laith Zuaiter is a Brooklyn raised actor/director/writer/producer. He started out acting through The New York Shakespeare festival as a kid and since has been acting, directing, producing and writing films and theatre with his friends and family. He makes films under the label, Friendly Stranger Entertainment, a production company started in 2014 at his high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts with a team of individuals who were having a hard time trying to find a group of friends to make a film in a 64 hour film festival run by the school. They happened to find each other, and throughout their experience applying for the festival, they acknowledged the beauty that they were all friendly strangers and so they went ahead to call their group for the festival by the same name. Laith also attended this high school with his little sister Nour Zuaiter, who is also an Actor/Writer/Director/Producer, she attended DePaul University for Directing for Staged Theatre. Laith got his start in 2007, when booking a Spike Lee pilot for NBC called, M.O.N.Y and had his on screen debut alongside, Bobby Cannavale. Laith is son of actor/producer, Waleed Zuaiter and Joana B. Zuaiter, producer. Laith has worked immensely behind the scenes, crewing for films such as 20th Century Women, Babylon, Maestro and A24's RAMY. Laith had his Off Off Broadway debut in The Mulberry Tree which presented at La Mama Theater in NYC (24-25'). Laith is bi-coastal between LA and New York, but is predominately based in Brooklyn, NY.
- IMDb mini biography by: Laith Zuaiter